Jobs at Social Media Today

We're hiring!

We're always on the lookout for technical expertise, marketing and community management, site editors, and good writers. If you think you'd like to be part of what we're doing, drop us a line, resume, job preference at jobs@socialmediatoday.com. Employment is based in New York.

Current openings:

Inside Sales Representative

Social Media Today LLC is looking for a full-time, inside sales person in New York to handle existing and new accounts. This will be a salary-plus-commission and bonus position.

At Social Media Today LLC, we create innovative marketing programs to help our clients connect with their key influencers and provide them with award-winning content sponsorships. Our dedication to world-class service, cutting-edge technology and to our employees has made Social Media Today a standout among other business-oriented publishers and a profitable media products and service company.

We pride ourselves on our consultative inside sales reputation, and our major-enterprise, FORTUNE 500 business clients trust our media consultants to help them maximize their social media and marketing budgets. Building on our up-to-date influencer marketing tools, matching clients with a product from our award-winning line of solutions and services will be all in a day’s work. Our extensive solutions include:

Creating content for placement in a wide variety of media
Producing concepts and content for website and mobile website
Building SEO campaigns for Google and other search engines
Developing integrated social media campaigns
Executing email marketing campaigns

Our existing team of media consultants is expanding, and individuals like you are in high demand. A sales background and an enthusiastic, enterprising spirit, along our strong and experienced team in New York, will help you build long-lasting customer relationships and further Social Media Today’s mission of creating client success.

Desired Skills & Experience

Have You Got What It Takes?

The Right Opportunity:

Career growth aligned with your performance and desire to achieve. We pride ourselves on developing our employees and promoting from within
Competitive base salary and uncapped commission plan
Competitive benefits, including medical, dental, vision, 401K, flexible spending accounts

Experience

One or more years of sales or equivalent experience
Telephone contact experience
Prospecting skills, including the ability to engage in high-level cold-calling to qualify and close new accounts
While a college degree and prior experience are strongly preferred, a goal-oriented candidate who can demonstrate a strong work ethic and enthusiasm for success would also be considered

Skills:

Excellent communication and presentation skills
Strong work ethic
Ability to multi-task
Graphic design including Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator
Social platform experience, especially prospecting and lead cultivation
Ability to think on your feet
Positive attitude
Competitive spirit
A desire to learn combined with adaptability to change
Sense of humor

Company Description

Social Media Today LLC is the original B2B destination for thought leaders, marketers, journalists, and enterprise social decision-makers, launched in 2007. The company works with major clients to create custom marketing solutions using social strategies and editorially independent content.

Social Media Marketing Manager

Job Description

What You'll Do

The Social Media Marketing Manager will lead the strategic direction of our social media program, focusing specifically on ways to leverage it to grow our business. If you are looking for an opportunity to lead an established social media company to a new level of innovative marketing and user experience, this job is for you!

The Social Media Marketing Manager’s goal is to dramatically increase our social following, create engaging, loyal relationships and stay on the cutting edge of social technology to enable strong ROI for our customers and clients.

Responsibilities

Drive the expansion of our social media marketing program
Ensure proper integration of social media components across the client experience (websites, email, mobile, etc.) and various marketing programs with major clients while engaging social followers
Measure and optimize social media program performance
Share and use best practices found by monitoring successful social media strategies and tactics within and outside the mortgage industry
Collaborate with internal teams (publishing, technology and sales) to grow the social media marketing program
Communicate results to marketing and company leadership, and best practices to other teams within the company.

Desired Skills & Experience

Requirements

2 years of experience in marketing, advertising, or public relations
1+ years of hands-on experience in social media and actively growing and generating business from large groups in social media, including direct interaction with a company’s clients
A passion for social media
Fluent in Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn rules of engagement, including ad buying best practices
Willingness to work some evenings and weekends, and respond to community members outside of work hours
Excellent presentation, communication and interpersonal skills with all levels of the organization
Ability to self-start, work independently, execute quickly, and prioritize work
Proven teamwork experience working with design, marketing and advanced technology teams

Company Description

Web Developer

Social Media Today is looking for a full-time employee to cover a varied tech role related to our large community sites built in Drupal.

He's what we need:

- HTML and CSS changes to existing templates to fix bugs, build new layouts, and improve UX. Being able to construct web pages in HTML, CSS, and JS/jQuery (simple) is an important part of this position. Being comfortable in a web inspector to find issues and having access to multiple browsers (including mobile) to test new and existing layouts is part of this skill set.

- PHP and Drupal API code to theme new views, add new features, and troubleshoot problems. The key here is a strong grasp of PHP and a general idea of how themes and modules come together to build the site. Drupal can be learned without too much trouble (we have someone that will walk you through the basics of how the site is built out) but having a basic idea of how CMS APIs work and the PHP to make it all come together is important. We're currently in Drupal 6 but migrating to Drupal 7 as you read this.

- Management of occasional larger-scope development projects (new site features or Drupal functionalities) in combination with day-to-day smaller tweaks and fixes, and ability to allocate hours smartly to complete both. We expect design and planning of development projects to be collaborative, with creative input welcome.

- Internal tech support related to admin tasks, style and theme issues, general web technology. This could be bug squashing, questions about functionality, and inquiries about add-ons, to support our marketing and content management teams.

- External email tech support related to site features. We have an email box that collects questions and comments from our users. Some of this is delegated to our content team but some relate to functionality issues that need to be addressed.

Bonus points if you:

... can make your way around a PSD, provide feedback, and make simple changes. Having a sense of what looks "good" and "bad" on a web page is good to have in this role.

... have a concept of how SEO works and what, generally, contributes to "good" and "bad" SEO so you can make good decisions about architecture.

... have a propensity for web design or a knack for building visually appealing and user-friendly web layouts.

... have any technical writing experience, professional or otherwise. Creating documents that can inform internal and external users makes you more efficient and will help you take less time for each task in the future. Even just a good list of steps in a Google Doc or email can help out greatly.

About Social Media Today

Social Media Today LLC presents the Web’s best thinkers on business and policy. We launched our company in 2007 with the goal of connecting leading experts across a variety of business conversations. As traditional media went digital, and the Internet went social, we realized the huge potential for social media platforms to facilitate direct communication among customers, their employees, and experts from academia, corporations and government.
Four years later, we’ve proven that editorially independent, online communities are a cornerstone of B2B social media. The Social Media Today network hosts analysis and debate on a variety of important business topics.

Social Media Today is located in New York, New York. While a candidate in this area is not required, we'd love to have someone available to spend time in the office with us as much as possible. We also have a long history of working virtually, and most of us still spend some time working remotely, so experience with distributed work environment is also a plus.

Social Media Today is looking to continue a strong trend of traffic and user base growth over the next few years. We're looking for someone to join our team and help us stay technologically sound and stable through this growth, while helping us to innovate and employ current user experience and social best practices. We have a high-quality managed host so server management skills are not required for this job. We also have a full-size, talented content team that handles promotion, marketing, and community management. This technical position with work directly with the company's management to execute an agile and innovative tech strategy.